Word: accepter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benign efforts of the Boston American and Record to bring Williamstown under the maternal wing of Mr. Hearst do not meet with overwhelming applause, it is because the students of Williams College do not know what is good for them sufficiently well to accept protection against the ill winds blowing over from Moscow. The success of the Williams Record in forcing the manager of the local movie theater to remove from the screen the Hearst Metrotone News reached across the state with a thunder the residents of the cloistered college town are not accustomed to hear...
...expand. But Ben Smith often invests in companies because he likes their personnel, and he liked Garfield Weston. At some indeterminate date, for an unrevealed price, Ben Smith bought a block of Weston stock. Last week he was bullish enough on biscuits to do something he has rarely done: accept an executive position. He became Weston Ltd.'s board chairman...
...course which I have attempted to follow is only that clearly marked out by President Eliot and valiantly defended by President Lowell. The fight is a never ending one and I accept this medal as a token of your interest in this important aspect of a free democracy...
...Offer. Not for one minute did Franklin Roosevelt, expert political horse trader that he is, weaken his bargaining power by admitting he would accept the Harrison compromise. But Senator Harrison flatly asserted that the President would accept it, for his bill offered a very nice compromise...
...publisher with the late, crusading Fremont Older as editor. Virtually his first task was to deal with a reporters' strike. While rival publishers excitedly fired "agitators" from their staffs, Neylan soothingly sifted his own newshawks' grievances down to a complaint that they were forbidden to accept free theatre tickets. He rescinded the order; the strikers went happily back to work. A bitter opponent of the Newspaper Guild today, Lawyer Neylan likes to relate the Call strike episode as somehow illustrating the fallaciousness of a newspaper labor movement...